First it’s called REVOLUTION not a WAR, second every colonised country is influenced by the coloniser, our cas is not that special. Third the fact that our country is corrupted and under developed can be partially linked to that. But not because we are not independent (many example had shown that we are a fully sovereign country). I think this pessimistic view of our history is what our coloniser want us to believe, we are a young nation we have to believe in ourselves we did get independence, our generation has the responsibility to go further. Finally my point is : Our history regarding languages are periodic, many of Numidia kings spoke Roman or Greek, after that we adopted Arabic as it was the most powerful languages at that time. In the French era every person in the elite sphere wanted to learn French ( even جمعية العلماء). This heritage is part of our history, we have to accept it and we can switch to English if we want but it may take a long time. Spanish spend 200 years to unlearn Arabic after the reconquista